SYDNEY (Reuters) – Five-times European champions Barcelona pays their first go to to Australia to play an A-League All Stars group in a pleasant in Sydney subsequent month, the membership introduced on Wednesday.
The match will happen at Sydney’s 80,000-seater Olympic Stadium on Wednesday May 25, just a few days earlier than the A-League season comes to a conclusion with the championship “Grand Final”.
Australia was a daily cease for main European golf equipment earlier than the nation was locked down throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with the likes of Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea attracting large crowds for profitable friendlies.
A video of greater than 95,000 followers singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” earlier than an exhibition match involving Liverpool on the Melbourne Cricket Ground went viral in 2013.
United and fellow English membership Crystal Palace will play friendlies in Melbourne in July this yr however plans for a first Glasgow derby exterior Scotland have been scuppered when Rangers pulled out of the Sydney Super Cup after complaints from followers.
(Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, Editing by Peter Rutherford)
